Peggy Lee Appreciation

A huge Peggy Lee fan, producer Karen Michel has produced five features about this singer, songwriter, and arranger.

2002 / Karen Michel / All Things Considered, NPR, USA

A huge Peggy Lee fan, producer Karen Michel has produced five features about this singer, songwriter, and arranger.

After the singer's death at age 81, Michel produced this final homage to the chantreuse.

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Based in upstate New York, Karen Michel is an independent radio producer who got her start in media as a guest on Art Linkletter's Kids Say the Darndest Things.

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BEHIND THE SCENES with Karen Michel

(Editor's note from Johanna Zorn: Karen Michel and I can date ourselves back to the early days of NPR. I began my internship at Chicago Public Radio in 1980, the year Morning Edition debuted on NPR. Karen started back in 1974. So while I created the Third Coast Festival, in part, to encourage the next generation of audio producers, I've wondered lately about what it takes to keep producing fresh and creative programs over a long career. So I asked my friend and fellow middle-ager Karen Michel to indulge me in an interview about "graying" in this business.

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